[Solution] disable proftpd and/or dovecot from being restarted by Virtualmin (collectinfo.pl)

Ok i finally sat down and followed the code from the collectinfo.pl cron job to the point it is restarted.

See i want to bee able to have the things available to me but off always, unless i toggle them from the system infomation > status page.

See i like the way the collectinfo.pl cron job restarts my services if they die, as it happens from time to time, but i dont need it restarting ftp and dovecot, as i have them disabled on boot and dont need them right now/always.

Also this free's system resources. BTW the switch to turn this collectinfo.pl script on / off and whether it restarts services is here: Virtualmin>System Settings>Virtualmin Configuration>Status Collection

Now onto the fix/hack. Youll be editing one of virtualmins perl libraries, but dont stress it can be done in notepad2 easily. first make a backup. its here:

/usr/share/webmin/virtual-server/collect-lib.pl

then open it up and go to line 636 this is the function "restart_collected_services" that restarts your services if they are down.

so we need to tell it to skip restarting the services we dont need. to do this i made a simple " if " statement around the restart code.

so in a blank line after the line " my $err; "

add this:

if(($ss->{'feature'} ne 'ftp') && ($ss->{'feature'} ne 'dovecot') ){#hayden - dont restart ftp or dovecot

then in a blank line before " $count++; "

add this:

} #hayden

explanation:

ne is string version of != or not equal this checks if the feature being checked is not ftp and not dovecot

if you want just one checked, modify the comparison.

Hayden.